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The #SiouxChef is Reclaiming North America’s #Indigenous Cuisine

Sean Sherman, co-author of a new cookbook and co-founder of The Sioux Chef, explains why original North American foods and #NativeFoodways are vital to creating a healthy and #SustainableFuture

Sean Sherman
October 18, 2017

Excerpt: "Although hamburgers, pizza, and Coca-Cola are among the foods most often identified as 'American' cuisine, the truth is that over-sugared, over-salted, and fat-laden processed fare does not represent the true American diet. The original American cuisine arose from the vibrant and diverse indigenous cultures that thrived across the North American continent for thousands of years before #colonization.

"My grandparents were among the first generation to be systematically assimilated to 'American”' culture—I heard stories of children kidnapped and sent to boarding schools, their hair cut, their language forbidden. How I wish I had been taught more than the handful of recipes I learned as a child — #wasna (dried meat and berries), #taniga (tripe soup), #bapa (#bison jerky), and #wojape (#chokecherry sauce).

"When I was 13 years old, I began my working in professional kitchens, and by my early 20s, I had become an executive chef. I mastered the art of Italian, French, and Spanish cuisines until, at the height of my career, I knew I wanted to understand why there were so few #NativeAmerican restaurants across the U.S.

"As part of The Sioux Chef, I work with my partner #DanaThompson and a team of 10 chefs, plus a number of indigenous culinary partners across Indian country. Our vision is to create more than a restaurant—it will be a place where we can share our skills, knowledge, and passion, with the goal of spreading our work across the whole of North America. To help us achieve these ends, our new #NāTIFS non-profit will focus primarily on indigenous food education and access. Through NāTIFS, we have created a research-and-development team called the '#IndigenousFoodLab' to further our own research, document our work, and help us become better educators.

"We are also building a replicable model that will place an #IndigenousFoodHub in larger urban areas. The hubs will house a regionally unique indigenous restaurant that will not only make the indigenous foods available to the public, but also serve as a training center to educate students in the preparation, cooking, and preservation of #IndigenousFoods. They will also house education centers that offer classes based on the many curriculums we have been developing to help people identify, understand, and apply the knowledge of indigenous food systems."

Original story:
https://civileats.com/2017/10/18/the-sioux-chef-is-reclaiming-north-americas-indigenous-cuisine/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/jFFbO

#DecolonizeYourDiet #SolarPunkSunday #TraditionalFoods #TribalFoodSovereignty #NativeAmericanMonth #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
#NativeAmericanFoodSovereignty #DecolonizeYourDiet #AnimalProducts #BuffaloHarvest #IndigenousFoodSystems

November is Native American/Alaska Native Heritage Month! Get our classroom-ready lesson plans and discussion guides for award winning films to make learning about Native American Heritage and World Indigenous Peoples part of your curriculum all year round.

🚂 American Railroad Instructional Guide to explore the impact the Transcontinental Railroad had on the Great Plain Tribes.
🎸 My Music with Rhiannon Giddens to introduce Native American vocalist and lap steel guitarist Pura Fé.
🦈The Wild to encounter a race against time to save wild Alaskan salmon, featuring the Yupik, Dena’ina, and Alutiiq Peoples of Bristol Bay / Iilgayaq.

https://journeysinfilm.org/teach-about-world-indigenous-peoples-with-film/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Nov+Nat+Am+Alaskan+Heritage+Month&utm_content=Link

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It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏

For #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth I'm introducing Native American deities 🌎

#Amaguq is a trickster and wolf spirit in the fables of the #Iñupiaq peoples in #Alaska. Amaguq is a shape-shifter who can alter his size and appearance at will.

📸 Southeast Alaska Wolf, Defenders of Wildlife
https://defenders.org/newsroom/rare-southeast-alaska-wolf-one-step-closer-endangered-species-protection

#DayOfHermes #Mythology

[Short Film]: #SandsOfTime: #CoastalErosion in #SouthernAlaska

"This short documentary by Anna Hoover of #BristolBay, #Alaska, presents the realities of coastal erosion by witnessing the experience of Bristol Bay community members. Interviews, local archives, and ancestral knowledge put the circumstances in stark relief, detailing the communities’ adjustments to the retreating coastline."

Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nhQZrBwQTI&list=PLtiOgIRVt407KkUa7gtlkGIuTD5YU6bqT&index=6

#IndigenousKnowledge
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #ClimateChange #ClimateChangeSolutions
#PublicTelevision #WGBH #FilmSeries #LegacyOfTheLand #IndigenousFilmmakers #NOVA #AnimalProducts #Fishing #IndigenousPeoplesDay

This #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, we honor the stories of Native Americans with powerful documentaries like “Surviving Columbus,” which explores the history and resilience of the Pueblo people.

Discover this and many more films featuring Native voices from Native producers in the AAPB’s Vision Maker Media Documentaries Collection: https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/vision-maker-media

#PublicMedia #PublicBroadcasting #AAPB #Archives #MediaArchives #PublicTV #PublicTelevision #NativeAmerican #NativeVoices #VisionMakerMedia